{"id":22989,"date":"2017-07-23T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delucapartners.it\/news\/the-procedural-guarantees-referred-to-in-art-7-of-the-workers-charter-are-also-applied-to-disciplinary-dismissal-of-a-senior-executive\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T16:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:10:31","slug":"the-procedural-guarantees-referred-to-in-art-7-of-the-workers-charter-are-also-applied-to-disciplinary-dismissal-of-a-senior-executive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delucapartners.it\/en\/insights\/giurisprudenza\/the-procedural-guarantees-referred-to-in-art-7-of-the-workers-charter-are-also-applied-to-disciplinary-dismissal-of-a-senior-executive\/","title":{"rendered":"The procedural guarantees referred to in Art. 7 of the Workers\u2019 Charter are also applied to disciplinary dismissal of a senior executive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With its decision no. 15204 of 20 June 2017, the Court of Cassation intervened in the subject of the <strong>disciplinary dismissal<\/strong> of a <strong>senior executive<\/strong> without prior application of the procedure referred to in <strong>Art. 7<\/strong> of Italian <strong>Law no. 300\/1970<\/strong>. The Supreme Court referred to some recent pronouncements, including Plenary Sitting decisions (Cass. No. 2553 of 10 February 2015, Cass. Plen. Sit. No. 7880 of 6-30 March 2007) and clarified that \u201c<strong><em>the procedural guarantees<\/em><\/strong><em> laid down under Art. 7 of Italian Law no. 300\/1970 are an expression of the principle of general <strong>basic guarantees safeguarding all forms of disciplinary dismissal<\/strong>\u201d<\/em>, which is applied to all forms of subordinate employment, without making a distinction between employees whatever their position in the hierarchy. A different kind of interpretation would be in contrast with the courts\u2019 decisions on the application of the law, because it would revive \u201c<em>an old and hackneyed notion of a senior executive as an alter ego of the entrepreneur<\/em>\u201d, and would be in breach of the principle of \u201c<em>audiatur et altera pars<\/em>\u201d, as a worker\u2019s indefectible guarantee. The Court maintained, moreover, that <strong>senior executives<\/strong> are expressly included in the listings in <strong>Art. 2095 of the Italian Civil Code<\/strong> and, as such, are included in the regulations governing employees in general. By failing to implement the procedural guarantees referred to in Art.7, the <strong>resulting claims<\/strong> will be those laid down in <strong>collective labour agreements<\/strong> for unjustified dismissal (payment of an <strong>indemnity in lieu of notice<\/strong> and of a <strong>supplementary indemnity<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its decision no. 15204 of 20 June 2017, the Court of Cassation intervened in the subject of the disciplinary dismissal of a senior executive without prior application of the procedure referred to in Art. 7 of Italian Law no. 300\/1970. The Supreme Court referred to some recent pronouncements, including Plenary Sitting decisions (Cass. 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